64% of water meters replaced

June 11, 2003|By Annemarie Mannion.

BLOOMINGDALE — A $2.2 million project to replace all of the water meters in Bloomingdale is more than halfway done.

Robert Maguire, utilities supervisor, said 4,518 of a total of 7,100 water meters have been replaced. The project is about 64 percent complete. Maguire said it is slated for completion by the end of the year.

The new water meters can be read by remote radio frequency in vehicles equipped with transmission/reception capabilities.

"Now we don't have to hop over fences. We can just drive through a neighborhood [to read the new meters]," he said.

The older method had meters inside a house or business and a connection that allowed the meter to be read at a remote site outside of the house.